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Old 21st Nov 2016, 12:29
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"Inverted flight? Good Grief man...you will be lucky to achieve level flight in it."
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Old 21st Nov 2016, 12:35
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"The designer?.......ohhh, he is on secondment from Hasagawa, he used to design their egg plane range"


See

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=ha...w=1280&bih=895
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Old 21st Nov 2016, 12:36
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^^^^

Oh, I thought it was the toy out of a Kinder Surprise...
Err no, that would be you.
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Old 21st Nov 2016, 12:44
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That's kinda not a surprise
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Old 21st Nov 2016, 13:17
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Old 21st Nov 2016, 13:22
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"Do you remember the old joke about a camel being just a horse invented by a Committee ? Well, .......... !"
 
Old 21st Nov 2016, 13:31
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"I hope you read Aeronautical Engineering at university before you built this."
"No, Sir, I've never read it, but I've seen the film."
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Old 21st Nov 2016, 14:48
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"Will it Fly? Hell no, this is something Henry Moore knocked up in his metalwork class.
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Old 21st Nov 2016, 15:35
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"For the last time, Ace, will you kindly stop asking, 'But where's the rest of it!!??' ."
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Old 21st Nov 2016, 16:05
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Yep, Apparently they have found an idiot to fly it....
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Old 21st Nov 2016, 16:41
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"Well....we had a load of left over Meteor engines, and someone at MOD Procurement thought of a way to make twice as many planes, and the rest is history......"
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Old 21st Nov 2016, 17:02
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Wheels? No room as it would spoil the area rule.
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Old 21st Nov 2016, 17:03
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This is the Blackburn Cannonball, its nickname is flying pear.
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Old 21st Nov 2016, 17:07
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Originally Posted by Pontius Navigator
This is the Blackburn Cannonball, its nickname is flying pear.
Flying "pear of anguish" by the look of it!
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Old 21st Nov 2016, 19:54
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Keep them coming.....judging tonight.
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Old 21st Nov 2016, 20:17
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Why is it so shiney?

Well SEngO said we might as well polish a turd
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Old 21st Nov 2016, 20:21
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You won't win with that one, it ain't even funny Traffic.
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Old 22nd Nov 2016, 07:48
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I'll be the judge of that!!
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Old 22nd Nov 2016, 08:32
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"Yessir, built by Budweiser ... they had these beer kegs lying around, and you can guess the rest."
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Old 22nd Nov 2016, 08:34
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Inspired by the Saab Tunnan you say....
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